Application scenarios for edge computing gateways are crucial as edge computing becomes imperative in IoT. What specific scenarios require these gateways? When organizations need to handle real-time response operations, such as instantly addressing local user needs like unlocking shared bikes or using facial recognition for access management, they rely on edge computing gateways. Additionally, these gateways are essential for collecting and structuring data, such as extracting license plate information from videos and transmitting it to the data center. They also support real-time device monitoring, primarily for offline devices, and facilitate decentralized P2P applications, enabling communication between nearby devices as service discovery servers.
Anwendungsszenarien für Edge-Computing-Gateways
There are a wide variety of application scenarios for edge computing gateways, many of which we can’t even imagine. We can give the following use cases for reference.
Power: Street light control, real-time monitoring and alarming of voltage and current data on city grids, or solar panel monitoring;
Sicherheit: Remote access control systems and alarms for anti-theft devices;
Energy: Data collection from monitoring of oil fields, coal mines, petroleum, natural gas and heating systems;
Traffic: Vehicle licence plate monitoring systems, vehicle infringement monitoring, traffic light control;
Environmental protection:collection of real-time data for monitoring and maintenance of water, sewage pipes, pumping stations and water plants.
Needless to say, the application scenarios for edge computing gateways are vast and span multiple fields. In the era of IoT, these gateways are essential. As noted earlier, edge computing gateways process and analyze data from devices, allowing them to respond in real-time to applications that require low latency.
While edge computing has many benefits, it also poses many difficulties, such as managing and maintaining distributed devices, processing large amounts of data, and ensuring network security. Therefore, the success of IoT applications depends on choosing the right Edge-Computing-Gateway platform and architecture, as well as its efficient configuration.
Die EG8000-Gateway-Serie is equipped with Node-RED system, which can achieve 0 code, visualisation and drag-and-drop programming. It allows you to easily connect hardware devices such as plc, industrial control machine, etc., while supporting various communication transmission protocols. It allows you to send the data to the cloud server in a specified format after the gateway has processed it, thus reducing the server load, and even allows you to use the LAN to continue sending commands to plc and other logic control units in the event of a disconnection.
